Finance & Services
Maddocks offers legal expertise to a range of clients from the finance and services sector, including financial institutions, private equity houses and professional services firms, as well as the health, education and ICT industry.
Health
Maddocks has strong experience in delivering expert legal and strategic advice in the pharmaceutical, health and aged care services sector. We advise clients who are ASX listed companies, not for profit entities, private companies, medical practitioners and government departments. Accordingly, we can see issues from a variety of perspectives and can also anticipate likely risks before they arise.
Our health sector covers five main areas:
- Corporate, commercial and regulatory advice
- Medico legal and health law
- Intellectual property, Pharma law and e-health
- Employment law and Workplace Relations
- Infrastructure to health providers, hospitals and aged care facilities
We are well positioned to provide our clients with support, advice and expertise in these key areas most relevant to the pharmaceutical, health and aged care sector. We also bring a significant depth of understanding of the many challenges – legal, ethical, commercial and risk related – confronting the pharmaceutical, health and aged care sectors.
Information Communications & Technology (ICT)
The Information Communications & Technology sector is growing rapidly and the constant evolution requires a broad range of high quality legal support. Through drawing together specialists from across the firm, Maddocks has the expertise to offer outstanding quality and be an effective provider of complex ICT services to support clients. Such advice includes:
- Commercial, regulatory and transactional services
- Contracting, procurement and supplier agreements
- Intellectual property – licensing, IP plans
- Internet/Domain name advice and related issues
- Software (including ownership, licensing, distribution models, maintenance services, SaaS, open source issues and end-user licence agreements)
- Telecommunications and information technology (including help desk, desktops, laptops, LAN, off-site collocation (or hosting) services, website and data hosting, PABX maintenance and on-site cabling services)
- Business process outsourcing (BPO) (including provision of financial markets information, payroll management, regulatory compliance assistance services, reprographic services, stationary supply and management, mail distribution and courier services and document archiving)
- Facilities management (including building fabric maintenance and engineering services, fire safety, energy management, waste management, pest control, concierge and porterage services, security, car park management, cleaning and out-of-hours office moves)
- IT disputes
- ICT infrastructure
Maddocks has strong industry knowledge in the ICT sector acting for clients such as au.DA (Australian Domain Name Administrator), Macquarie Telecom, Nintendo and the Victorian Governments Department of Justice.
Finance and Private Equity
Maddocks Finance and Private Equity sector acts for financiers, borrowers and other intermediaries, providing strategic advice and practical structuring solutions for all types of financial transactions.
We recognise that relationships are critical to understanding both financiers and borrowers' requirements and pride ourselves on the strength of the relationships we have built with our clients in this sector. We value the trust clients place in us, relying on us to deliver their legal outcomes within required time parameters.
Our team understands the lending criteria and credit approval terms required to secure successful transactions. We work closely in partnership with financier clients to ensure adherence to credit parameters, to minimise unnecessary exposure to unwanted credit risk yet at the same time, being mindful of achieving successful commercial outcomes.
We offer extensive expertise in the following areas:
- Property Investment and Development
- Corporate Finance
- Capital Markets
- Project and Infrastructure Finance
- Structured Finance
- Regulation and Compliance
- Superannuation
- Funds Management
We also advises investors and companies seeking capital on a wide range of private equity and venture capital transactions.
Our team advise clients on:
- raising and investing seed capital
- raising and investing development and expansion capital
- leveraged acquisitions and management buy-outs and buy-ins
- funding structures, including limited partnerships, trusts, equity capital, senior and mezzanine debt and hybrid securities
- management incentive arrangements, including equity ratchets and employee share plans
- risk management strategies
- your exit strategies, including through an IPO, sell down or trade sale.
Professional
Maddocks understands the professional services industry and works closely in an advisory capacity with accountants, business advisors, trustee companies, fund managers, engineering firms and insolvency practitioners.
We advise regarding corporate administrations, liquidations and receiverships, business recovery and reconstruction strategies. We are experienced in advising companies, trusts and individuals who are confronting financial challenges which may lead to insolvency or possible personal liability.
Maddocks has also acted in numerous corporate reconstructions - designing, developing and implementing the legal processes and procedures regarding significant mergers, acquisitions and corporate reconstructions, both in Australia and internationally.
Education
Maddocks understands the education sector and has an extensive knowledge of issues affecting the higher education sector.
The higher education sector is one in which we feel we have real skills and experience to contribute and is "core business" for us. We have shared values, such as a commitment to education and professional development, providing quality services and excellence to our clients, and forging strong working relationships.